Mark Cuban rips league over trade
By Tim MacMahon/ESPNDallas.com
DALLAS -- Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who was vocal in his opposition to the proposed trade that would have sent Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Lakers, still doesn't think the NBA-owned New Orleans Hornets ended up with a decent deal.
The right deal, in Cuban's opinion, would have been none at all, even if that meant losing Paul for nothing at the end of the season.
"You're better off just taking the cap room, or whatever," Cuban said.
Paul ended up being traded to the Los Angeles Clippers, who visited the Mavericks at the American Airlines Center on Monday night.
"I don't think it was about the Lakers, per se," Cuban said before the game. "I think it was just the way they did the deal, which was ridiculous. I don't think it was about which team. I think it was the fact that, even with the Clippers, we just went through this whole (collective bargaining agreement) and said the incumbent team still has the advantage and then the team the league owns (wimps) out. And look how it's worked out for them."
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Well it's not hard to fathom that the owner who would have been in favor of letting Paul rot in New Orleans for the year is the same one who has stockpiled enough cap room to add whichever free agent point guard he wants this summer. In fact, if Cuban weren't so sure Deron Williams would be playing in the Big D next year he'd probably be jumping on scorer's tables and throwing rocks at Stern every time he saw him.
Cuban can try and pretend he sides with the best interests of the small market teams like the Hornets if he wants, what he's really pissed about is one of the other teams in the Western Conference landing an perennial All-Star and Dallas not doing so. Which is roughly the same reason I'm pissed CP3 plays for the L.A. team in red and not the one in yellow. Of course I admit that.
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